Improvement in spittoons



N-PTERS. PHOTO-UTWOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES LISTON W. BARGUET, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPITTOONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,493, dated Augustl 22, 1865.

To all `'whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, LIs'roN W. BARGUET, of the city, county, and State of New York,

.have invented certain new and useful Improvehave no grooves, crevices. or shoulders where the mucus may become lodged and be retained when the spittoon is emptied and cleaned, and the whole interior of which maybe readily accessible to the action of the swab, brush, or broom with which said spittoon may be cleaned.

Figure 1 is a top view ot' my improved spittoon. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal central section of the same, and showing in red lines the position f the cover when raised.

A is the handle by which the spittoon is lift,- ed and earried,and which is made and attached to the body or bowl of the spittoon in the ordiilary manner.

B is a thumb-piece, which is made of such a form and is so attached to the cover that it may be acted upon by the thumb ot' the same handV Which carries the spittoon, and the spittoon be thus opened without inconvenience.

O is the cover, which is struck up out of a single piece of metal with a double curve, as represented in Fig. 2, so as to receive, condense, and return to the spittoon the products of evaporation from the contents of said spittoon, and at the same time Aso made as to offer no crevice for the lodgment and adhesion of mucus or moisture. l

D is the bodyor bowl of the spittoon, which is made of one piece of metal, and in the form, or very nearly in the form, of a portion of a sphere having a perfectly smooth inside surface, so as to be readily, quickly, and thoroughly cleaned, there being no seam, crevice, groove, or depression to receive and retain the mucus and other impurities of the spittoon.

E is the foundation or foot ot' the spittoon, y

and is made and attached to the body or bowl of the spittoon in the usual way.

This spittoou will be found especially convenient, when made small, as a hand-spittoon for the use of the sick, because, from the peculiari ties of its construction, it can be so readily and throughly cleaned, and thus kept free from the disagreeable odors which lurk about the seams and crevices of spittoons as usually made.

A spittoon the body ot' which is made ot' one piece of metal struck up into the form of a portion of a sphere without seam or crevice, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

LISTON W. BARGUET.

Witnesses:

Taos. P. How, JAMES T. GRAHAM. 

